Tímarit Máls og menningar - 01.12.2016, Side 78

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10 „Death is … even more powerful in the human mind than sexuality, for although in theory
some individuals can live asexually, no one avoids death.“
11 „… the Bildungsroman formula, mandates a plot determined by the concept of growth as
linear: death is the endpoint of that line“. (Seelinger Trites, 118:200)
12 Lesley D. Clement 2016: 10.
13 … recalling memories and telling stories about those whose bodies may rest in graves but
whose spirits can breach the porous boundary between the realms of the living and the dead.
(Lesley D. Clement 2016: 10)
14 Georgieva 2016: 48.
15 „… invite to a twofold perspective: their writings are intended for children and contain images
of and references to the deaths of mothers and fathers; however they also contain child charac-
ters who die and with whom the child can empathize and so adress the idea of his own morta-
lity … The temporary confrontations with death and the eventual happy endings thus show the
child that another world lies beyond the world of childhood.“ (Georgieva 2016: 49.)
16 „Elisabeth Kübler-Ross has pointed out five stages of grieve: denial, anger, guilt, depression,
and acceptance.“ (Seelinger Trites, 118:2000).